Idaho Blogs — 2/11/09

One caller, from Boston, said Republicans like Risch have little room to carp about big spending, after the Bush years. Risch didn’t really dispute the caller’s point, but was quick to point out that he is new to the Senate. Fair enough. But Risch also made what I thought was a veiled criticism of President Obama, who has gone out of his way to paint the current economic crisis as a problem he inherited from the Bush administration. Said Risch: “This is now his problem”/ Kevin Richert , Idaho Statesman. More here .

• Thursday morning coffee /Unequivocal Notion
• Economy, deficit are Risch’s problems, too /Kevin Richert
• Darwin’s 200th birthday /Sisyphus, 43rd State Blues
• Let’s make Darwin day ‘Academic Freedom Day’ /IVA
• Lincoln’s birthday /Free In Idaho!
• Slaughtering cattle to make the sun rise /Clayton Cramer

Question: Do you agree with U.S. Sen. Jim Risch that the economy is Obama’s problem now? Or do you agree with Richert that it’s also Risch’s problem?

• Praising the hero pilot /2C Etc.
• Not quite so much the warrior, maybe /Randy Stapilus
• Cowboy justics /MountainGoat Report
• Stuff happens /Morialekafa
• More Special Olympics photos /IdaBlue
• One million visitors /The Stupid Shall Be Punished